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Abyei Abyei
- Abyei, the main contested region between Sudan and South Sudan (BBC)
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Abyei | Abyei borders | Abyei Dispute / Conflict
Related Institutions
Abyei Chief administrators
- 7 Jun 2011 - Present | Ahmed Hussein al-Imam
- 30 Dec 2009 - 21 May 2011 | Deng Arop Kuol
- 31 Aug 2008 - 30 Dec 2009 | Arop Moyak
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- Friday 17 May 2013
May 16, 2013 (JUBA) – Attendees at a high-level conference in South Sudan have issued a statement, asserting the new nation’s independence from Sudan “remains incomplete” until Abyei is transferred back to the South from which it was moved (...)
- Sunday 3 March 2013
March 1, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudan’s deputy interior minister, General Salva Mathok Gengdit has vehemently denied accusing Warrap state’s Twic County community of backstabbing the Dinka Ngok in Abyei over territorial disputes. (...)
- Wednesday 15 May 2013
May 14,2013 (JUBA)- The United Nations Interim Force for Abyei (UNISFA) has relocated over 120 Sudanese national staff working in various mission support departments to Kadugli, the capital South Kordofan state, well-placed sources (...)
- Monday 13 May 2013
May 12, 2013 (JUBA) - The leadership of a youth group from the oil-contested border region of Abyei have called for the immediate termination of the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force for Abyei (UNISFA), claiming the mission (...)
- Friday 3 June 2011
June 2,2011 (JUBA) - The ousted head of the Abyei administration Deng Arop Kuol, said on Thursday he believes that close to 100 people have been killed in the fighting that saw the northern military take control of the disputed border (...)
- Sunday 12 May 2013
May 11, 2013 (JUBA/KHARTOUM) - South Sudan has rejected forming a joint administration with the Sudanese government in the contested border region of Abyei, accusing Khartoum of having “killed the spirit of dialogue with [the] (...)
- Wednesday 10 November 2010
November 9, 2010 (KHARTOUM) – The ruling National Congress Party (NCP) in Sudan has laid out three options before the Sudan People Liberation Movement (SPLM) to break the deadlock on the oil-rich region of Abyei that lies on the (...)
- Thursday 16 June 2011
By Ngor Arol Garang
June 15, 2011 (JUBA) - Officials from the government of South Sudan and members of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) on Wednesday said at least five North Sudan soldiers have been killed in clashes in (...)
- Saturday 11 May 2013
By Ngor Arol Garang
May 10, 2013 - The past days have seen global community watching members of the Nine Ngok Dinka of Abyei, together with their cousins in the South Sudan shedding tears unabated. They are grieved by the unexpected, (...)
- Friday 10 June 2011
By Ngor Arol Garang
June 9, 2011 (JUBA) —The leadership and office of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) in the disputed area on Thursday rejected the legitimacy of the newly appointed administration, and pledged to take (...)
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